Programming Tutorials

bzip in Mac OS X

By: Strauss K in macos Tutorials on 2011-02-03  

In Mac OS X, bzip is a command-line utility that is used to compress or decompress files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm and Huffman coding. It is similar to the gzip utility but offers a higher compression ratio.

The bzip2 utility is typically used instead of bzip since it provides better compression and is more widely supported. The bzip2 utility is also available on Mac OS X and can be used to compress or decompress files using the same algorithm.

Suppose you have a file named "example.txt" that you want to compress using bzip2. To do this, you can open the Terminal app and type the following command:

bzip2 example.txt

This will compress the file "example.txt" and create a new file named "example.txt.bz2" in the same directory.

If you want to decompress the file later, you can use the following command:

bunzip2 example.txt.bz2

This will decompress the file "example.txt.bz2" and create a new file named "example.txt" in the same directory.






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